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Nah you want a carwash to freeze your doors shut.
December 15, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Nah you want a carwash to freeze your doors shut.
He has a specialist for that.
December 12, 2025 at 9:01 PM
He has a specialist for that.
Fantastic jersey. Takes big balls to don number 19.
December 12, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Fantastic jersey. Takes big balls to don number 19.
Upping Jaden's offensive involvement and dealing with Mike's twilight and Rudy's aging. Trying to conjure a bench rotation when they only have like 8 playable guys.
December 12, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Upping Jaden's offensive involvement and dealing with Mike's twilight and Rudy's aging. Trying to conjure a bench rotation when they only have like 8 playable guys.
Bones in place of old bones.
December 12, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Bones in place of old bones.
I also appreciate that his "scary" number is 8-12% in taxes when the average family plan is $27k.
$27k is 8-12% of ~225k-340k or roughly the top 5-10% of household incomes.
8-12% would be a savings from what the typical household is already paying (directly or indirectly).
$27k is 8-12% of ~225k-340k or roughly the top 5-10% of household incomes.
8-12% would be a savings from what the typical household is already paying (directly or indirectly).
December 11, 2025 at 11:02 PM
I also appreciate that his "scary" number is 8-12% in taxes when the average family plan is $27k.
$27k is 8-12% of ~225k-340k or roughly the top 5-10% of household incomes.
8-12% would be a savings from what the typical household is already paying (directly or indirectly).
$27k is 8-12% of ~225k-340k or roughly the top 5-10% of household incomes.
8-12% would be a savings from what the typical household is already paying (directly or indirectly).
NAW absolutely found his game and his confidence in MN. We've seen him trying to carry the sort of role he has now in the past when he wasn't ready for it. He was one bad break away from washing out of the league.
NAW wasn't held back, he was built up.
NAW wasn't held back, he was built up.
December 11, 2025 at 8:22 PM
NAW absolutely found his game and his confidence in MN. We've seen him trying to carry the sort of role he has now in the past when he wasn't ready for it. He was one bad break away from washing out of the league.
NAW wasn't held back, he was built up.
NAW wasn't held back, he was built up.
They would never allow results to see the light of day.
December 11, 2025 at 2:48 PM
They would never allow results to see the light of day.
Thought Leader in Moronity?
December 11, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Thought Leader in Moronity?
I posted his first 2 steps. What more do you need?
You actually literally can't get "a lot" of steps regardless of what you do. You get 2 to establish a pivot, and another into a shot or pass (your pivot foot can't touch down)
He dragged his final step plus took more steps than are ever legal
You actually literally can't get "a lot" of steps regardless of what you do. You get 2 to establish a pivot, and another into a shot or pass (your pivot foot can't touch down)
He dragged his final step plus took more steps than are ever legal
December 10, 2025 at 12:56 AM
I posted his first 2 steps. What more do you need?
You actually literally can't get "a lot" of steps regardless of what you do. You get 2 to establish a pivot, and another into a shot or pass (your pivot foot can't touch down)
He dragged his final step plus took more steps than are ever legal
You actually literally can't get "a lot" of steps regardless of what you do. You get 2 to establish a pivot, and another into a shot or pass (your pivot foot can't touch down)
He dragged his final step plus took more steps than are ever legal
OK, in which case he switches to his left (travel), then switches back to his right (another travel) before stepping through with his left.
December 9, 2025 at 7:48 PM
OK, in which case he switches to his left (travel), then switches back to his right (another travel) before stepping through with his left.
There's no travel at the top of the key and it's not even close! He receives the ball, and at the most conservative has his right leg planted. He clearly releases the ball as he takes his allowed step.
And at the other end he switches pivot feet entirely to make an impossible move.
And at the other end he switches pivot feet entirely to make an impossible move.
December 9, 2025 at 7:30 PM
There's no travel at the top of the key and it's not even close! He receives the ball, and at the most conservative has his right leg planted. He clearly releases the ball as he takes his allowed step.
And at the other end he switches pivot feet entirely to make an impossible move.
And at the other end he switches pivot feet entirely to make an impossible move.
So it's a travel, even under the most permissive possible interpretation, just as I've been saying all along?
December 9, 2025 at 7:26 PM
So it's a travel, even under the most permissive possible interpretation, just as I've been saying all along?
Again even if you call the left foot the gather and give him 2 steps beyond that, that ends up as a left-foot pivot...which he then switches to a right-foot pivot before stepping through with his left. There's still a travel.
December 9, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Again even if you call the left foot the gather and give him 2 steps beyond that, that ends up as a left-foot pivot...which he then switches to a right-foot pivot before stepping through with his left. There's still a travel.
There's literally an entire pair of left-right steps between the screenshots I posted and the sequence that you described - and critically he's planting and cutting off of his left foot as part of the sequence - doing things with his momentum that aren't possible to do legally.
December 9, 2025 at 7:05 PM
There's literally an entire pair of left-right steps between the screenshots I posted and the sequence that you described - and critically he's planting and cutting off of his left foot as part of the sequence - doing things with his momentum that aren't possible to do legally.
The rule is pretty clear, but even if you concede all the way to "left foot as zero step", he then steps with his right, jumps to his left, switches back to his right, and steps through with his left.
It's still too many steps even if we take your chosen zero step.
It's still too many steps even if we take your chosen zero step.
December 9, 2025 at 6:37 PM
The rule is pretty clear, but even if you concede all the way to "left foot as zero step", he then steps with his right, jumps to his left, switches back to his right, and steps through with his left.
It's still too many steps even if we take your chosen zero step.
It's still too many steps even if we take your chosen zero step.
I admit I did not see that coming.
December 9, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I admit I did not see that coming.
2-steps prior with both hands on the ball
December 9, 2025 at 6:16 PM
2-steps prior with both hands on the ball
On his second step after picking up his dribble with both hands.
December 9, 2025 at 6:15 PM
On his second step after picking up his dribble with both hands.
He can't just keep walking around claiming he hasn't established a pivot foot. He has 2 steps once he's gathered. That gets him to here. He then switches pivot feet (traveling), switches pivot feet again (traveling again), drags on the step through (traveling again, but more of a quibble)
December 9, 2025 at 6:14 PM
He can't just keep walking around claiming he hasn't established a pivot foot. He has 2 steps once he's gathered. That gets him to here. He then switches pivot feet (traveling), switches pivot feet again (traveling again), drags on the step through (traveling again, but more of a quibble)
That's why we're saying he traveled!
December 9, 2025 at 6:07 PM
That's why we're saying he traveled!
No it's the 4 steps that he takes after picking up the ball with both hands but before he steps through that draws the reaction.
December 9, 2025 at 5:50 PM
No it's the 4 steps that he takes after picking up the ball with both hands but before he steps through that draws the reaction.
The NBA rulebook specifically calls out "steps". A step is just changing the pivot foot
2 hands on the ball - gather - with his right foot down. Then his left, then jumping to his right, then switching to his left, then back to his right, then back to his left on the step through. too many steps
2 hands on the ball - gather - with his right foot down. Then his left, then jumping to his right, then switching to his left, then back to his right, then back to his left on the step through. too many steps
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December 9, 2025 at 5:48 PM
The NBA rulebook specifically calls out "steps". A step is just changing the pivot foot
2 hands on the ball - gather - with his right foot down. Then his left, then jumping to his right, then switching to his left, then back to his right, then back to his left on the step through. too many steps
2 hands on the ball - gather - with his right foot down. Then his left, then jumping to his right, then switching to his left, then back to his right, then back to his left on the step through. too many steps